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RE: Career opportunities as company Secretary?

Hello Komal,Welcome to Career Guide.comThanks for approaching us and writing us your career query.

Every one dreams of making a good career in life . And the career that they wish to do should give the a good earnings and should also give a prestigious recognition in the society. CA,CS,CMA these are some of the careers that gives both a good earning and also a prestigious recognition.All these careershave a great importance and demand. Recent era has been witnessing a great career growth in these fields.Company Secretary is one of the Great career having wide range of career opportunities.The work of the CS is to handle the legal matters of the corporate sector companies/organisations.A CS professional is a in-house legal expert in the corporate. There has been a huge requirement of the qualified CS every yer in India around of 1,00,000.

There are wide range of career opportunities for the CS professional. Companies having a paid-up capital share of Rs.5 crore or more have a mandatory to appoint a Company Secretary.The career opportunities available for CS professional are- One can either practise CS independently. While if you wish to do a job you have an option to work in the corporate companies, Banking Institute,Financial Institutes,Joint Venture Companies,Foreign Collaborations ,Consulting Firms, various Government departments,etc.

If you have an interest in teaching field you can also work as either full time lecturer or parttime lecturer in various educational institutes.

In order to have a great career opportunities in CS one must go with LLB too.Because many of the companies ask the CS professionals to have the LLB degree. LLB gives you an in depth knowledge about the law.

I hope you find this information relevant to your career query.Wish You Good LuckFeel free to get in touch again.Thank YouWarm Regards,Prathamesh K.

RE: Career opportunities as company Secretary?

With the introduction of the new Companies Act 2013, the role of Company Secretary (employment and private practice) has become very important, challenging and growth oriented.

Company Secretary apart from being a master of secretarial practice and company law, he should also be expert in general laws, and therefore LLB should also be done for a better career opportunity and growth.

Career opportunities for Company Secretary are in all companies, banks, financial institutions, non banking institutions, mutual fund companies, etc.

Best wishes

RE: Career opportunities as company Secretary?

Please note that earlier Company secretary were only considered as a legal advisor to the director, but these days are involved in all functions for the smooth functioning of the organization.Now they are also responsible for compliance related matters as well as financial advisors to an organization.

As dr Anand has suggested, to be successful as a CS, knowledge regarding LAW is a must. S if you pursue LAW, it would help you further in your career.Apart from this though your syllabus covers Financial aspects, but in case if you get certificates related to Finances like Taxation and budgeting, forex etc can add to your job profile.

Mr. Prathamesh is a Certified Career Consultant by Psytech International (bps) UK and is also a Certified Trainer for Life Skills; he is pursuing Narrative Therapy from Adelaide, Australia. He has been in to career counseling for more than 8 years now he practices MINDFULNESS psychotherapy with students. He possesses vast experience in teaching and career counseling. Currently he is associated with FUEL NGO. He had counseled over laces of students and is a founder director of Canvas Career Consultancy, committed to conduct Psychometric assessments for students and do career counseling by making them aware about new career avenues

Mrs. Meghna is a Postgraduate in clinical Psychology. She had been a part of several workshops related to Personality Enhancement, Counseling, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Therapy, Hypnosis for self Healing etc. She works at Adaptive Mind as freelance counselor and had worked as an executive counselor at Growth Centre, School Counselor at Billabong High International School, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Vidya mandir. Her areas of expertise include Human Resources Management with Clinical Psychology. Currently working as a Brain mapping analyst

Mr. Ravi is a LLB, with Business & Commercial Laws as a specialization and is Masters in International Business & Commercial Laws from UK .He had worked for an Immigration Solicitor Firm as a Para LegalCurrently he is working as Business Associate with Capital Novus. He had also worked as a Legal Associate in SKJ Juris where headed the Legal Research, Compliance & Contract areas of law independently .He is an active member of the project management group, and helped design and develop processes and methodology based on client needs. He represents and serves clients from areas like pharmaceutical, banking, finance, information technology, real estate, manufacturing industries etc. being a researcher he believes in sharing his experience and knowledge for the benefit of academic counseling